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Sunday, May 30, 2010

This look was from yesterday. It has been very warm and beautiful here lately so I wanted to wear something bright and summery. I ordered a few new hair flowers for summer that arrived on Friday. I just love wearing flowers in my hair. But all I mostly have are red roses/flowers or cream/white coloured. I wanted to get more colours to wear with anything. I parted my hair on the left side and made a messy bun right behind my right ear then added a flower. I'm wearing a dark purple/fuschia silk orchid. It's so pretty and almost looks real.

All pics are done in natural light. I didn't have time to do close-ups because I had to take off to run errands. If you click on the pics, you can click again to enlarge them for better detail.

On eyebrow looks bigger than the other...hee hee!

my temples are veiny!

Eyes (all applied in this order):
Too Faced Shadow Insurance
Detrivore Eye Primer (applied all around the eye, rubbing in gently with ring finger)
Morgana - Axe to Grind (applied to outer V with MAC 217 by patting/sweeping and blending)

Thursday, May 27, 2010

While I really do like this look, there are a few annoying things I did that I'm not too happy about. I filled in my eyebrows a bit more than usual and they look really intense to me. But I'm sure I'm the only one that notices. I also used too much highlighter under my brow and it looks too frosty. The pics with flash made it look really bad so you just get natural lighting pics today. Another thing is I over blended one eye. So you can tell one eye is darker than the other. None of these things are particularly horrible and don't really ruin the look. Like I said, it's annoying but these things happen. We all have something like this from time to time so I'm just not worried about. The learning process never stops in my opinion, and we always learn different ways of doing things to get the right look. I just need to go back to using a matte fleshy colour shadow for my brow bone and use less Pixie Epoxy in that area. :-)
I can say I'm getting much better at applying my fake lashes too. Took me a few seconds today, no issues and I can't even feel them. Woot!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Here is my first look using shadows from the Victoria's Revenge collection. The greens turned out very olive on me, which I'm fine with. At first I thought I would hate this look, but it turned out really nice, I think. :-) The sun decided to hide away from me so all pictures are taken with flash.

I just got these lovelies in the mail yesterday. Wasn't feeling too well so I didn't swatch them until this morning. I know a lot of other wonderful gals have swatched these and posted pictures too, which I've been drooling over! Here are my swatches. I couldn't wait to see these for myself. They are all so beautiful...I seriously think I want them all in full size...uh oh!

Monday, May 24, 2010

I have two looks from the weekend. One is super simple (green that I wore to run errands), the other is purple and I wore it to my hour and a half bellydance class, followed with hiking in the mountains for over an hour. Yeah my butt is sore! So I didn't want to wear an overly dramatic look that would melt from sweating and get into my eyes. I didn't wear false lashes this time and just wore one coat of mascara. In the eye pic with open eyes, you can tell that my left eyelashes in the center, are shorter than my right. :-( Trying to grow them back out. I think most people wouldn't notice, but I do just because I look at them very closely every day. Anyway! Onto the makeup! Here's the purple look. I think I look weird without winged liner...

Here's the other REALLY simple look. I'm just wearing SMH Fresh as eyeliner. It's a bright green with sort of yellow/gold sheen. I've worn this as a liner many times but I normally don't take pictures of it. I love it though. :-) I'm not wearing much otherwise. Just Physicians Formula Healthy Wear SPF 50 Powder in Translucent Light and Avon BEYOND COLOR Plumping Lip Color SPF 15 in Frosted Beige.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Jeez it's about time I used Fyrinnae again. I feel like I forgot about them or something. How is that possible?! Oh yeah, and I found my Azalea Blue lipstick...it was on my dresser buried under a pile of new colourful tights I got recently. I could have sworn I lost it but I'm glad it was just misplaced. :-)

Here's my look for the day. This certainly is NOT boring to me like the previous purple and teal look I did.
I almost look balled. It was super windy today so I wore my hair in a tight bun. Dang I have a HUGE forehead...

About Me

I am a wife, a jewelry whore, a makeup nerd, a model, a bellydancer and health junkie. I will be sharing my makeup looks, hauls and some products I use but probably won't review many products unless there aren't any reviews for a particular item. I also don't have a lot of time to write tons of stuff every day, so my LOTD posts will be kept simple with pics and what was used to create the look.
I love to joke, laugh and have fun. Some would say I'm "goth" but I say I'm a PIB (person in black) with morbid tendencies/interests. I'm very laid back and easy going. I can get along with almost anyone. I strive to see the good in everything, no matter how hard that is at times. I believe that being fit and healthy is the greatest gift one can give to themselves.